Posted on 08/10/2023 8:10:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Voters in Virginia and Arizona sent letters to their states’ leading election officials on Tuesday, demanding they correct their jurisdictions’ allegedly inaccurate voter rolls in accordance with federal law.
Addressed to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Virginia Commissioner of Elections Susan Beals, the letters — which are supported by the Honest Elections Project (HEP) — allege there are numerous localities in both states that are violating provisions of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Passed in 1993, the NVRA mandates states make “a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters” — such as those who have died or moved — from their respective voter rolls.
In Arizona, the letter’s signatories claim a comparison of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017-2021 American Community Survey “of citizen voting age population” with publicly available voter roll data shows “at least four counties have more registered voters than adult citizens over the age of 18” and “nine counties … have voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18—a figure that far eclipses the voter registration rate nationwide in recent elections.”
The letter additionally notes there is one county with a voter registration rate over 80 percent.
“Comparing the registered voter count to the 2017-2021 American Community Survey reveals that Apache (117.4%), La Paz (100.5%), Navajo (100.1%), and Santa Cruz (112.6%) Counties all have greater than 100% voter registration,” the letter reads. “In other words, there are more registered voters than eligible voters.”
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 168.3 million of the country’s 231.6 million (72.7 percent) citizen voting-age population were registered to vote at the time of the 2020 election. Given this statistic, signatories are claiming the “abnormally high” registration rates in counties such as Cochise (93.4 percent), Maricopa (97.8 percent), and others “constitutes strong evidence that Arizona’s voter rolls are not being properly maintained.”
In total, the signatories are alleging 14 out of Arizona’s 15 counties have inflated voter rolls.
Regarding the letter to Beals, several Virginia voters are alleging similar failure by commonwealth election officials to administer accurate voter rolls. Using the same methodology described in the letter to Fontes, the aforementioned citizens claim there are 101 Virginia localities with erroneous voter rolls, including purportedly 43 counties and cities with “more registered voters than adult citizens over the age of 18” and 58 with “voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18.”
Earlier this year, the Virginia Department of Elections found nearly 19,000 dead voters on the state’s voter rolls. The discovery came weeks before Beals announced Virginia would be withdrawing from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a leftist-controlled voter roll maintenance group that inflates voter rolls by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered residents to register to vote.
“Failing to maintain the voter rolls puts public confidence in the election process at risk and creates an unnecessary potential for fraud. The law is clear; all states must ensure that they are taking the appropriate steps to properly maintain voter lists,” HEP Executive Director Jason Snead said in a statement. “We are proud to support these voters and the people of Arizona and Virginia, who are working to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”
Signatories of both letters say they plan to file lawsuits against their respective states if Arizona and Virginia fail to clean up their voter rolls within 90 days.
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Would you bet money on it happening?
Silly people want accountability……
August 2023. Should have been NLT January 2023.
Kati Hoggs sure as heck isn’t going to do that. She relies on screwed up voter rolls to keep her government jobs.
This an excellent start and one of I’ve talked a lot about here on FR.
Will it succeed the odds aren’t great but it’s much more likely than challenging the outcome of the election itself.
The reason it might succeed is I would be willing to be laws in both states require up to date voter rolls that aren’t filled with fraudulent voters
If these groups can get financial support and produce actual evidence because voter rolls are generally public information then a strong legal challenge has a chance to succeed
Democrat "voter registration drives" in the runup to elections will re-register all the purged "voters." That is literally the purpose of such drives.
Public Interest Legal Foundation and Judicial Watch and others have been suing states in order to get them to clean up their voter rolls.
https://publicinterestlegal.org
In other other words, lots of people don't respond to the American Community Survey. I know I never have, but I register to vote. The ACS is not a very good measure of how many eligible voters live in an area.
This is not to say that there isn't lots of voter-roll fraud in the named counties; I'm sure that there is, and in other Arizona counties as well.
There is NO WAY to “correct” the bad rolls. They are too far gone. It would take massive manpower to verify all the data.
The simple solution is to start fresh: erase the existing rolls. Wipe them out. Then have every voter who wants to vote again re-register IN PERSON with a passport, birth certificate and/or other government ID. For shut-ins and invalids, send out mobile teams to register them at their residence.
Doing that after every quadrennial federal election would solve the problem.
I’m pretty sure my dad voted in the past two elections in Arizona and that he voted Democrat for the first time since JFK.
In Cochise County the Republican committee is doing voter verification. We had a big push in June and July. 236 verified correct registrations. 48 voters had moved and were no longer at the address on file. One had passed away but was still on the rolls. Error rate of the records = 17.2%. (49/236). And we have a largely conservative Republican county with a Recorder that actively tries to keep the voter registration records updated. We give the results of our verification process to him and he starts the process to get the records updated. It can be done but takes a lot of work.
Not really, first do a computer match on death records and voter rolls and note the difference
There is a voter election integrity group here in Florida doing it with volunteers using excel spreadsheets to do the matches.
A couple of weeks ago a guy was Steve Bannon’s War Room talking about his software that compared property tax rolls to voter rolls and then taking every location with over number of voters registered to one location and then investigating that location and many times the location was an abandoned location
It’s very doable with modern database systems and software
I consider voter roll updates a distracting side issue. Making elections viable by incorporating auditable and document detail process controls with punishment(like disallowing the votes if the audit fails) will fix most issues. Processing the votes and counting as decentralized as possible ( at precinct level preferred) Any process that is not auditable is on its face fraudulent. There are no, not one, election process that is auditable in this country.
RE: In Cochise County the Republican committee is doing voter verification.
I’m glad to hear that. But I am more concerned with the messed up Maricopa County, the biggest and most befouled county in Arizona when it comes to voting.
The only election officials that make a difference are Soros & Bezos...
Fontes is corrupt, and was illegitimately elected.
He won’t do anything!!
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